As we are a very diverse community, I feel we need to have a "News Organization" that we can inform each other from. I would ask that even though you are from a different ethnicity, culture. That you contribute in your own language for those that speak your language so they can be informed, and also translate into English if

possible.

Also let's not promote the negative things posted on our news as some may become offended.

As without a doubt, and rightly so.. iif0xh0undii is Editor and Chief.

Thank you Sir. Hopefully this will not be able problem that you have to constantly Edit. Or becomes a nuisance for you. I'm sorry about not posting political views be held to a minimum. Yet as always, Commandante is on the job.

Hodge, 48, pleaded guilty to seven counts of producing child pornography, two counts of conspiring to produce it and two counts of distributing it.

“Part of the sentence must be a signal that the law is serious about this type of criminal activity and the penalty will be harsh,” said Chief Judge Richard L. Young, near the end of a 3-1/2-hour sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court at Evansville.

A federal grand jury indicted Hodge for photographing and recording an 8-year-old girl engaging in sexually explicit acts with him on at least seven occasions from April through November 2010. Two of the photo sessions involved Hodge’s wife, Emma, inappropriately touching the victim, according to court records. Two sexually explicit videos of the girl and Larry Hodge also were found, the indictment said.

Some of the images depicted sadistic abuse of the girl, according to court records.

Emma Hodge and George Jackson also have pleaded guilty to charges in the case. Both are currently scheduled to be sentenced June 19.

Valve today announced its upcoming downloadable action title Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will arrive on the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam (for PC and Mac) on August 21, 2012.

According to Valve, CS: GO will be sold for approximately $15 on all platforms.

Developed by Valve in cooperation with Seattle-based Hidden Path Entertainment, CS: GO will feature new game modes, weapons, maps, and characters for the franchise. Additionally, gamers will be able to fight on updated versions of original Counter-Strike maps (including de_dust), and Global Offensive will support matchmaking and leaderboards.

The Counter-Strike franchise has sold more than 25 million units in a little over 12 years. Global Offensive is currently in development at Valve Software and Hidden Path Entertainment,

After an overseas TV crew last week claimed it had recorded audio of a yowie man in a remote region on the NSW-Queensland border, documents show the Australian version of Bigfoot was also allegedly sighted last year far closer to metropolitan areas atSpringwood, west of Sydney.

A BIG cat, possibly escaped from a Mafia boss's private zoo, has been terrorising rural Sicily.

In an email to National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers, the witness said he had filmed the creature in March last year and taken photos of footprints. He even drew the yowie man's head, pecs, arms and feet on the picture to make it clearer.

"I have had a seven-year history with this creature," the witness wrote.Canberra crypto-naturalist Tim The Yowie Man, who claims to have seen a yowie in the Brindabella Ranges in 1994, said he was interested in the latest sighting.

"The Blue Mountains has been a common spot for big cats, obviously, but it is not unusual for yowies either," he said. "I have no doubt people believe they are seeing something unusual but many can be cases of mistaken identity."

The NSW Environment Department declined to comment last week. Three years after a government study found there was no evidence of the Blue Mountains Panther - aka the Hawkesbury Big Cat and the Penrith Panther - rangers are still receiving sightings of the creatures.

In an unsolved attack last summer, a Bilpin family's pet alpaca was mauled to death by a suspected big cat that later gutted a kangaroo.

"'Big cat' kill report," Hawkesbury area ranger David Monahan wrote in an email to his boss a few days after the attack.

"Victim was a large alpaca, head crushed, 7cm puncture wounds in skull, adult animal, hairs left on wire fence to be brought in today."

In June 2010, a witness claimed to have seen a cat the size of a german shepherd with yellow eyes beside a "roo on side of the road with head missing", a report said.

On July 13 last year, a man wrote to another ranger after spotting "the panther" on a trip home from Singleton a few days earlier.